On January 6, 2021, Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd shot and killed unarmed Ashli Babbitt. Despite the lawsuit Babbitt's family has filed against Byrd and his eyebrow-raising disciplinary history, Byrd has been repeatedly rewarded.
He was given a “$36,000 retention bonus, more than $21,000 in security upgrades to his private residence, and instructions to:” [he] According to a recent report, Byrd will be “promoted from lieutenant to captain in 2023.” article By Joseph Hanneman, Blaze News investigative journalist.
Now Hanneman and fellow Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker, along with Jill Savage and Blaze News Editor-in-Chief Matthew Peterson, are trying to find out on 'Blaze News Tonight.' There is.
Byrd “has a history of being careless with weapons,” Hanneman said. The most notable of these was an incident in which Byrd “fired a military-style weapon at a getaway vehicle near his home while a neighbor was in the line of fire,” an incident recently reported by a Congressional Oversight Committee. .
Byrd also “left a military-style weapon in a toilet tank at the Capitol Visitor Center.”
However, Byrd had “three more case files,” but they magically “disappeared.”
Hanneman said there are “missing records,” and his understanding is that the content of these missing reports makes what we already know about the incident “look rather tame.” he added.
But Byrd's incomplete records aren't the only mystery. There is also the difficult question of flick and flack — “Unidentified men who were near Ashli Babbitt when she was shot.”
For more on the scandal surrounding Ashli Babbitt's death, watch the episode above.
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